Word: matronly
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...more complicated situation will occur on WOR's Meet Miss Julia in September when Helene Freeman (who plays a young matron named Sandra Wilson) intends to take a vacation. At the present time the charming Sandra is married to a loony who is being treated in a private sanatorium. In order to get Sandra off the air, her unstable spouse will be permitted to escape from the asylum. Thereupon Sandra will have to go and look...
Susan and God (M. G. M.) explores the situation that develops when a giddy Long Island matron takes up with something resembling Dr. Frank Buchman's Oxford brand of confessional Christianity, tries hard to talk her husband and her friends into it and to death...
...picture is fast-moving light comedy with no weak characters to slow the pace. Roland Young brings horn-rimmed Caspar Milquetoast to life as he meekly submits to buxom Bostonian Ethel Marder--who acts a fluttery matron of social parts. And the inevitable fish-eyed English butler, Arthur Treacher, chills the drinks with a glance. The technicolor charity ball approaches the photography of GWTW; versatile Anna Neagle, who dances, sings, and acts with equal ability, sets a high mark for other screen beauties to aim at. This movie is a guaranteed cure for blue book blues...
...recent years she has been a proper little matron, known to Austrians as Die Gnäddige Frau, "the Gracious Lady." She has spent most of her time doing complicated 2,000-piece jigsaw puzzles, chatting with priests, walking out (since she got the habit of early rising) before sunup to feed the neighbors' dogs...
...quell the "quite inaccurate" publicity accorded these rules, Dame Gwynne-Vaughan gave a Women Journalists' Jamboree last week at Brighton, but added little to ATS lore beyond stating: "The qualities sought in a young ATS officer include something of the motherliness of the matron in a boys' school. The girls bring their troubles...